Sex in an Old Regime City

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Sex in an Old Regime City is written by Julie Hardwick and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190945206 (ISBN 10) and 9780190945206 (ISBN 13).

Sex in an Old Regime City is a major reframing of the long history of young people's intimacy. It shows how long- running problems like out-of-wedlock pregnancy were handled very differently in Old Regime France than in more recent centuries. Abortion, infanticide, broken hearts, and conflict with parents and neighbors were key challenges of young people's lives then as now but young couples' efforts to deal with these challenges were supported in pragmatic, often sympathetic, ways by their communities and institutions like local courts, clergy, legal officials, and social welfare managers.